Sanko Headquarters Winning Design
Timber trends on track to change the look of architecture as being a part of nature. A strong start for architecture is to build a respected dialogue with nature and is to remind people of the real context of all buildings.
Companies and architects start seeing their projects as a center stage to the demands of the climate crisis. They are willing to take a position with the trend of “being natural”.
As a result, the trend now is an explicit exhibition of nature through architecture.
This month a new timber winning design will represent the Sanko headquarters in a new image as compared to their 2002 headquarters building.
RMJM Milano has won a competition to design the new Sanko Headquarters, one of Turkey’s oldest group of companies. Their landmark design was selected among other prestigious firms for its sustainable and innovative features. (2)
“For us, it was important to find inspiration in the local scenery and we found it in the magnificent caves of Cappadocia. The whole idea for the building was to resemble a monolith carved out and rising from the earth”, says Luca Aldrighi, Director at RMJM Milano.
This is a work environment inside a mysterious living tree. The central void extends from the ground up to the roof with a strong beam of light penetrating through the whole building in a magical way. It appears similar to the famous lighted Maya’s caves, cenotes. Each floor, from the upper floors right down to the auditorium, hosts different greens, which improve the quality of the ambient air. The exterior is a cladding of nature that works as a thermal barrier. (2)
This company design contributes to the architecture-nature dialogue. Sustainability is demonstrated as a story on its exterior and interior facades like the way it aims to function.
Credits go to:
1-https://www.thinkwood.com › …PDFWeb results timber Trends on Track to Change Architecture in 2020 – Think Wood
(2) https://www.e-architect.com/istanbul/sanko-hq-development-istanbul
